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Making the Music of
the Puerto Rican Hills
Folk and Traditional Genres, Musicians, Instruments and Makers En español

The Players
The musical tradition was created and carried on by generations of cuatristas who dedicated their lives to the perfection of its voice..

Traditional genres
Over four hundred years, a great multitud of distinctive genres were created in the fields, towns and cities of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's stringed instruments
Not just the cuatro, but a multitude of entire families of stringed instruments flowered in Puerto Rico

Craft and Craftsmen
We learn about the ancient instrument -making craft, and visit the makers.

SEEN IN THE BACKGROUND

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Tuto Feliciano, Ramito's accompanying cuatrista, as a young boy
playing the 4-string cuatro antiguo, which he played exclusively
all the way up to the 1950s.